I've done a site search a Google search and checked in the back of the sewing magazines such as Threads and can't find an advertisement for a patttern. Wikkipedia gives a pretty good description but I'd like a pattern if I can find one, if for no other reason than it will fuel my dreams of next summer.

Guayaberra is a shirt worn in central and south America as well as Cuba. it is worn outside the pants, has four pockets and a sort of pintucking embellishment up the front, crossing the pockets. Wikkipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is open for public contribution of articles and pictures.

our guyaberas have the pintucking done on a separate piece of fabric and then applied to the shirt (a basic camp shirt should do). i have all sorts of sizes, from toddler 2 to adult 44, and they all have the same thing.

however, i would bet the really fancy linen ones from veracruz and central/south america would be pintucked before cutting out. don't forget the tone on tone embroidery. i've seen multicolored embroidery too.

------Linda

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.
-- Betsey Johnson

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